Aesthetic in Kant

Offering a reading of Kant's "Critique of Judgment", this book draws on the great volume of philosophical work on the text and on the context of 18th Century aesthetics. His text is used as a basis on which to construct a radical alternative solution to the antinomy of taste, the basic problem of the aesthetic.

Part I: The Description of Taste; 1. Immediacy and Necessity; Part II: The Description of Taste II; 2. The Role of Concepts; 3. The Grounds of Taste; 4. The Sublime; 5. Reason and Morality in the Sublime; 6. The Anatomy of an Aesthetic Idea; Part III: Fantastic Desires I; 7. Adherent Beauty; Part IV: Fantastic Desires II; 8. Free Beauty; 9. Conclusion.